hyperbolic trajectory


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hyperbolic trajectory

[¦hī·pər¦bäl·ik trə′jek·trē]
(aerospace engineering)
A trajectory entered by a spacecraft when its velocity exceeds the escape velocity of a planet, satellite, or star.
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19, meant that it's following a hyperbolic trajectory that's not bound to the Sun.
A Visitor from Interstellar Space
infinity]] after determining the osculating hyperbolic trajectory, as discussed in [1], as well as the right ascension and declination of the asymptotic SC velocity vectors [V.
Here we have only used asymptotic osculating hyperbolic trajectory data from [1].
Resolving spacecraft earth-flyby anomalies with measured light speed anisotropy

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